From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,828c115241d90eca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-18 08:31:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Al Christians Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADCL Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:35:07 -0700 Organization: Public Property Software Message-ID: <3B55ACAB.3EB3CF69@PublicPropertySoftware.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10162 Date: 2001-07-18T08:35:07-07:00 List-Id: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." wrote: > > Of course, I agree. There are several interesting differences between > software and other copyrightable items. Object-oriented design and > large libraries can result in a product using only a small amount of > a developer's creation. The royalties should be based on what is > linked. Run-time binding is beyond me. As royalties that depend on how smart the linker is are beyond my ken. The simplest would be for the author to puplich a flat $ amount per copy for commercial use instead of the percent based on SLOC. Do you really want me to just pad my SLOC count to reduce your royalty? This public license with fixed royalty per copy works for music. With a license offering based on flat fee per copy sold, the author can at least take a guess at how much advantage his package offers in comparison to whatever the competition (commercial, free, write it myself) is, and a whole lot of complicated math and what-if questions are cleanly avoided. The idea (that Ada promoters should promote, I think) is that software parts should to embody the same positive qualities that work for hardware parts (in reliability, in buy-vs-build comparisons, and in ease of interconnection), and pricing accordingly would strengthen that perception. Al